Third Floor Common Room; Monday Morning [05/11].

[howareyanow]

Wayne was still mebbe a little bit sore about what felt a little like an attempt at a breakfast coupe to him, what with Nina going and making breakfast yesterday morning, but he s'posed she could have also just been doing what she thought was nice for the new students and didn't want them to have to wait until Monday to get a good meal in their stomachs, and so he supposed he'd just have to wait it out and see if she decided to go ahead and do it every Sunday, just like he did every Monday, and if that were the case, well, then...

She could have at least picked literally any other day of the week that wasn't the one right before his breakfast day, if that were the case.

But again, it was something he wouldn't be able to determine until next week, so there was no point in fussin' about it now, especially not when he had a traditional Monday morning breakfast to start putting together, all the usual trappings and fixing, from yer pancakes and eggs to your bacon and sausage, fruit for the grease-averse, juice, coffee, so on and so forth.

He figgured, what with some people needing to be up for classes and the particular aroma ventilating structure of the dorms itself, there should be at least a few people, if not the good ol' regulars, wandering in to see what's up and to get a little fuel.

It was, after all, the most important meal of the day.

Even if the Internet might tell you that was all just marketing, Nina.

[[ open breakfast is open, come get some food! ]]

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[snowdroplace]

"You tame mountain lions?!" Elli's voice rose several octaves.

Was that better or worse than just a random mountain lion having gotten in? She wasn't sure.

Yeah, no, Elli was perfectly content to keep cowering behind the couch, thanks.

[legionqueen]

Oh, no. Bears (and other wildlife), she tamed. Camden... Camden had chosen her. It was different.

Jules shook her head. "I'm a naturalist," she explained. "Camden is my familiar."

People around her didn't know what the first thing was, but enough seemed to understand the second to some degree, at least.

[snowdroplace]

...

The only naturalist Elli knew was Basil and he studied plants.

"A mountain lion!" she protested.

[legionqueen]

Oh, Jules was also fantastic with plants! Did you need a tomato plant cleared of blight, or a tulip to bloom mid-December? If so, Juillenne Milone was absolutely your girl.

"She'll not harm you," Jules said, trying to be reassuring. "She knows better."

[snowdroplace]

"She knows better?!"

Elli didn't believe that! She also couldn't believe that they allowed this because this was such a danger to everyone and Elli did the only thing she could do in these circumstances.

She burst into tears.

She was going to die before her first class!

[legionqueen]

Juillenne just sighed, rubbing at the bridge of her nose. And mentally nudged Camden to maybe go sprawl somewhere in the common room that was as far away from Elli as possible.

She couldn't exactly blame her for her reaction, because Camden was very intimidating-looking, but also...

"The two of us have been here a year now," she said, still trying to be reassuring. "If she were a danger to anyone in the dorms, surely we would've been asked to leave?"

[snowdroplace]

Fear was still a perfectly normal and totally reasonable reaction to mountain lion in the common room! Elli refused to feel bad for it, even as she tried to calm down.

"M-Maybe it ate them," she sniffled.

[legionqueen]

“I promise you she did not,” Jules said. “Look, I’ve asked her to stay as far away from you as possible, see? So you needn’t worry.”

Not that it looked like Elli was going to stop worrying anytime soon, but maybe it would help just a bit?